Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . infer thatit was situated on or near the Ionian sea, and thatit was the first town oa the coast S. of the cand 1196 THYRSUS, which separated Leucas from the mainland. It isplaced by Leiike in the plain of Zaverdha, but noruins of it have been discovered. Its name does notoccur in Strabo. Thyrium is first mentioned inB. c. 373, when its territory was invaded by Iphi-crates. (Xen. Hell. vi. 2. § 37.) Xenophon de-scribes it as a place of importance; and it appearsas one of tlie chief cities of Acarnania at the timeof the Roman wars in Greece, when its nam
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . infer thatit was situated on or near the Ionian sea, and thatit was the first town oa the coast S. of the cand 1196 THYRSUS, which separated Leucas from the mainland. It isplaced by Leiike in the plain of Zaverdha, but noruins of it have been discovered. Its name does notoccur in Strabo. Thyrium is first mentioned inB. c. 373, when its territory was invaded by Iphi-crates. (Xen. Hell. vi. 2. § 37.) Xenophon de-scribes it as a place of importance; and it appearsas one of tlie chief cities of Acarnania at the timeof the Roman wars in Greece, when its name fre-quently occurs. At this period Thyrium was oneof the places at which the meetings of the Acar-nauian League were usually held. [Acarnania.]It was one of the many towns whose ruin was oc-casioned by the foundation of NicopoLis, to whichits inhabitants were removed by order of Augustus.(Pol. iv. 6, 25, xvii. 10, xxii. 12, xxviii. 5; 11, 12, xsxviii. 9, xhii. 17; Anth. c.; Leake, Northeni Greece, vol. iv. p. 16.). COIN OF THYRIUM. THYRSUS or TYRSUS {©vpaos TT0Ta^6s, Ptol.;©opffoy, Fans.: Tirso), the most considerable riverof Sardinia, which still retains its ancient name al-most unaltered. It has its sources in the mountainsin the NE. corner of the island, and tlows into theGidf of Oristano on the W. coast, after a course ofabove 75 miles. About 20 miles from its mouth itflowed past Forum Trajani, the ruins of which arestill visible at Fordungiamis; and about 36 mileshigher up are the Bayni dl Benetutti, supposed tobe the Aquae Lesitanae of Ptolemy. The Itinerariesgive a station ad Caput (^Itln. Ant. p. 81),which was 40 from Olbia by a rugged moun-tain road: it must have been near the village ofBudusb. (De la Slarmora, Voy. en Sardaigne, p. 445.) Pausanias tells us that in early timesthe Thyrsus was the boundary between the part ofthe island occupied by the Greeks and Trojans andthat which still remained in the hands of the nativeba
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